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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
Debts OF Honor.
From the London Saturday Review.

From the London Saturday Review.
The most curious contradictions exist between
some OF the names and the facts OF our social NOR
ality. and we may pretty safely assert that the
common phrase "debts OF honor is one OF the most
striking instances Of these anomalies It is odd
that these peculiar debts should alone have the
monopoly OF the word honor. The tradesman who
has supplied his customers with q Qutd pro quo
has right to have his account discharged. 1t may
with hts eyes open has his legal remedy, and can
issue q summons, whereas gambling debts are
illegal This is certainly the law but its practical
working is sometimes curioua Debts Of honor are
but the brakeman only sets his legal remedy In
FORCE when he nds out that the credit Of his debt
or Is almost gone. He is also hampcred with the
do him more harm than sood and drive away many
profitable customers
we could multiply examples Of the curious work.
Ing OF curious code; but We WIN now try to sug-
ION, might, we think, insist that any one receiving
gambling debt before the legal ones were paid
should be Obliged to refund the money TO its right.
@ Would sn many ss about Tn po
limits OF time trustees &C. which 4 g not In our
province to enter into; but We believe Il this
were found possible TO DO. that the two KINDS Of
honor. 1nen coiistsraliy IL might have q 6sneS.
cial enfect In reducing gambling TO tt proper
Hmits- namely, the limits Of surplus cash.
e g ma. MAKE we not g y
this vent 70 the Feelings has entirely asa away.
Its dying may or may not have BEEN an unmixed
tie diSnis Attached q Tue famous S,s 4 - usl
where the cock pheasant routed the whole party;
but, although we can hardly hope that "a inci.
Sdcr g an Gee SssSs e ys
event = not 1uco0co1vobaa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
The Age OF Brain.
From the Albany Journal.

There is so relshable flavor in grumbling that
all Of US, more or less-now Mark Tapley is dead
enjoy 1t. The weather is permanent target for
our arrows, and yet the combined criticisms and
growls have never yet ef1ectually changed an air
current or raised lowered the mercury thread In
a thermometer. When years ago the sperm whale
grew sparse in the Polar Seas, prospects OF q
deeper and broader night appalled, the expectant
age. The advent OF petroleum was combined
disappointment to the Cassandras, and also a
better light. The Slow but positive exhaustion or
our coal fields and the shrinkage Of the water
power OF our streams are In the sympathetic line
the new industrial life, the lowering pulses, or the
exhaustion here and there OF gas WE'LL Is received
with self-cOngratulatOry, II told you So" and
suggestive expectancy that the aSpirat1ng lung OF
the planet VIII be asphyxiated.
In the Darwinian development OF the globe
these are purposes, not accidents. Destruction or
decay provides nutritfve debris for the resurrec
ton OF an advanced phenomenon or better life.
IL is a waste OF sympathy TO look far Into the
future and shiver With the suppoSable cold that
may Smite the marrow OF our distant descendants.
The time to come will repeat the experience OF the
past. The wage Garner OF to-day, with only the
wealth OF his two hands, Is better sheltered,
warmed and nOurlshed than any prince in the
time OF the Crusades. The knot OF the social
tangle will be united by the fingers OF science.
OF toll VIII be the John the Baptist or the millen-
ium. The ages TO come will look to the men who
subdued nature as more heroic than those who
conquered man. As OF old, the vulcan who welded
fire 10 iron was made demigOd, so he shall not be
nameless who spreads the nerves OF wire across
the faces OF the continents and under the sea,
widening the senses and knitting together all the
pulses or the world.
We talk lightly Of 'bottled sunshine. " yet the
winds that are made or solar warmth will swing
the sailing arms OF motors gather the electricity
OF this friction into reservoirs and in the nearby
daylight and warm the huInbleSt home. A few
years ago 1t would have been q miracle to speak
and be heard over space OF 100 miles; to-day 1t
Is cOmmon-pace The communism OF the future Will
be the communism OF scientific comfort AS long as
the earth rotates Its axis with the soft friction OF
great magnet, there IS no apparent limit TO the
possibility OF It's appliance. Life Is heightened and
sweetened by every forward step. The load on
every back Will be eSSened by the lifting fingers
OF the forces OF nature. Electricity can separate
water into its cases. cOnsumable as fuel and plla-
BILE for domestic force The possibilities, nay,
the probabilities, Of the future seem almost infi-
nite We are only on the threshold OF the benefi-
cent times. The age to come will be the age OF
brain. The past mas been the age Of muscle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
Englishmcn I'm Cabul.


Two Englishmen have just returned from Cabul,
Mr.. O'Meara, o surgeon dentist, and Mr.. Pyne, q
mechanical engineer. Mr.. Pyne was some months
In the ameer's employ az superintendent Of the
state workshops ut CabuL He was rather popu-
lar than otherwise with the Cabulees, who hoped
to see him back among them. II Mr.. Pyne, they
say, will bring q wife with him next time, they
Will lay out q mall In Cabul three miles long,
where he ana the Fennghi madam may drive up
English lady has been derived, OF course, from
visits to European stations In British India where
the evening drive, TO "eat the air. Is as much a
habit as having dinner.
hore Civil and Mnttdyy Gozette. Mr.. OMeara, It
may be mentioned, Is an elderly gentleman whose
only defense against hostile mob would be his
ae ane caDu sSs
August last, escorted from Peshawur by SIX OF the
ameer's tr00pera He found the ameer at Ragh-
man, q summer residence Is miles from the capt.
reports at ali hours Of the day from every quarter
OF his kingdom. HIS highneSs was accessible TO
all his subJectA Riding into Cabul, he stopped
several times 70 take petitions from the meanest
roadside He complained In opsn durbsr Of the DIM
Guilty Of raising the revenue: "One quarter OF the
money that u rightly mine got; one quarter
get BY nghting for Il; one quarter DO not get at
DO nos Know ~SSs ksSds as
O'Neara, while IN Cabul taught the elsments OF
his art TO an Afghan named Aaq Khan, Whom he
LETT making false teeth for the governor OF the
Cabul wherever they hked, In The byways as wen
a. in the main struet4 and not the nlightest at
tempt was made 70 modest them. A matter Of
tact says Ar; 0'AsaIh ..psopls tock no netice Of
means certain Of sver seeing India again; and hls
safe return must have been . great relief 20 HIS
ffiendA Il MOI pleasant surprise 70 himself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
How Dimes are Made and Counted.


From the San Francisco Chronicle.
1t is not generally known that the United States
Mint, on 5th street. Is the largest institution Of
the kind in the world yet 1t is fact. just at the
present time there Is a lively demand for silver
dimes, and hundreds Of thousands OF them are
being shipped to New York, Chicago Cincinnati,
st. Louis and other Eastern cities. Two Of the
money presses have been for some time running
exclusively on this coin. The demand is SO great
that these machines are not even stopped on sun.
days, and will be run on that day throughout
the present month The process Of dimemaking
T rss melted r and run mi, into Sp9und bars
rollers and fattened out to the thickness
OF the coin. These silver strips are then
the proper size for the presses the strips first hav.
ing been treated with kind Of tallow to prevent
their being scratched IN their passage through the
cutters. The silver pieces are then put into the
feeder Of the printing presses, and are fed to the
die by automatic machinery at the rate OF 100 per
Wo8ea sy Of spSs Seu4 me out IN
are pressed between the pOnderOus printing dies
they receive the lettered and figured impression
upon form Of type; at the same time the piece is
expanded In slight degree, and the small cor
rugations are cut into into It's rim. The machine
ready for the counters hands. The instrument
used by the counter Is not a complicated ma
8 a simple, copper-colOred tray, having raised
ridges running across its surface at a distance
apart the exact width Of o dime. From the re-
ceiver the money is dumped on to this board or
tray. and as 1t Is shaken rapidly by the counter
the pieces settle down into the spaces between the
ridges All these spaces being filled, the surplus
coin is brushed back into the receiver and the
counter has exactly 1,25O dimes, or SIPS on his
tray, which number Is required TO NIL the spaces
money Is ready for shipment The dime does not
pass through the weighers hands as does the
coin VI larger denomination. One and One-half
erra Ia al od nr gStnno~o
all silver coins from dollar down, and the devia.
ton from the standard In the case OF the lO-cent
pieces Is so trifing that the trouble and expense
or weighing coins OF this denomination are as.
pensed with.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17

'The thrift OF the rich Is the occasion thereof
That sentence Is so true that think 1t must be In
the Bible, so put it between quotation marks I
was In shop that was filled with magnificent
we're woman entered and q brace Of proprietors
began KOtOOing around her in abJect fashion. she
table bundle a battered dolls BODY. and f Seaan
giving instructions as to the sort OF head she
wanted htted on. Had It been broken-nosed
reconstruct, l would have supposed there was
some sort OF sentiment about 1t, and that the
Ses d 70 Of CHILDISH
whole doll, body and boots, would have cost
perhaps $3.50: Here was the Old kid carcass
screwed on for sl-a notable saving Of twelve
York shillings-and in the present stringent state
OF the money market that is not q sum TO be de-
economical dame laid down IS doll which she she
had In her hand, and tried TO remember what she
sawdust every time her child played with it
Visions OF the possibility Of half solfng and heel
ing the rents In that discarded creature danced
through her newly informed brain; and, incensed
that desirable buyers should be deserted while the
shOpkeeper paid court TO the ngure-head OF money
out boldly. She selected DOH and is trousseau
that came 70 over &l0. The clerkees gave her an
60 gG but she 70
on between Mrs Millions and the shopkeoper
certainly, madam" he was murmuring, as he
forenoon. We can send 1t up Friday night II It is
more convenient"
There's q cradle belonging to this doll said the
lady, In sort OF seal plush voice, "but rocker Is
missing
"Thst can be easily replaced. We win send this
afternoon for 1t and have It repaired aJ once This
promises 70 be very busy season; our stock u
larger than any previous"
al have begun my few preparations In time. Mr.
santa Claus" Interrupted the LADY, land win be
Obliged 70 you If you attend to These orders At
she sailed out. followed BY obssquious bows and
the ShODkeeDer. still rubbing hla banda
'"fhat Is one Of the CrOeSuses"
.'She has taught me Bible lesson" said the
lady" the thrift OF the rich Is the occasion there
Of What folly In me 70 purchase that go doll
when have some headlees trunks lying around
the house. Will send the bodies 70 you this very
day.
This is not an undertakers shop" said the mer-
CHANT, land a. rule we do not repair things. For
Ma CrGsus IL Ia quite
"a different thing, no doubt, and I trust you
VIII md your pront In IT. finished the other; eat
all events you can't expect an exhibition OF thrift
IKE hers, met with such humble respect q You
have shown, TO TAIL OF teaching your customers
valuable lesson. We will all get our dolls reloaded
Good morning."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
An Unhappy Princess.

From London Modern Society.
The nervous system OF the Princess Of Wales has
been so worn and tried by recent events that not
only her favorite bromide has ceased to have any
ehect, but maid is forced to sleep In a room
adjoining that occupied by her royal highness
Like all highly sensitive and very deaf people, she
often imagined extraordinary noises, and this
popularity, which for years has been a bore at
Sandringham, has now, doubtless owing to the
sleepess nights passed by the bedside or the al
measly ones become an absolute torment TO her
surroundings. Her royal highness' great terror is
OF nre, and the late catastrophe at Exeter, follow
ing tnat Oh the opera ConlQue In Paris, 80 upset
her that she vowed she would never enter a
theater again. Her constant terror is that Prince
George, her pet, will be burned to death at sea,
and that wicked youth has on more than one occa-
sion taken advantage OF his mothers nervousness
In this particular TO spin yarns which would make
the best seasoned salt pale with envy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17

From Our Dumb Animals
There is Christmas custom here which pleased
and interested me. The children made little
presents to their parents, and to each other, and
parents to their children For three or four months
before Christmas the girls are all busy and the
boys save up their money to buy these presents.
What the present 10 to be is cautiously kept secret
and the girls have world OF cOntrtvances to con-
ceai it-sueh as working when they are out on
visits, and the Others are not with them-gettng
up In the morning before daylight, &C. Then on
the evening before Christmas day, one Of the par
lors Is lighted up for the children, into which the
tened on the table at q little distance from the
wall, multitude Of little tapers are 1xed in the
consumed, and coOred paper, &C, hangs and utters
from the twigs. Under this bOugh the children lay
out IN great order the presents they mean for their
parents, still cOncealfng In their pockets what
they intend for each. Then the parents are In
troduccd, and each presents his little gift; they
then bring out the remainder one by one from
their pockets, and present them with kisses and
embraces Where witnessed the scene there
were eight or nine children, and the eldest daugh-
and the tears ran down the face OF the father and
he caSped all his children SO tight to his breast 1t
seemed scenes as ne dd It to ss The SOB thai was rising
OF the Dough and its appendages on the wall, and
arching over on the ceiling, made pretty picture;
when at last the twigs and their needles began
10 take IRE and snap-Oh, 1t was delightful to
them! ON the next day christmas Day), in the
presents for their children; scene OF more sober
Joy succeeds, as on this day. after an old custom,
the mother says privately TO each OF her daugh-
tiers, and the father to his sons. that which they
have observed most praiseworthy and that which
was most faulty In their conduct Formerly and
still in all the smaller towns and villages through
sent by all the parents To some one
fellow, who In high buskinS q white robe a
mask, and an enormous fax wig, persOnates
KnecM Rupert-L e., the servant OF Rupert. on
Christmas night he goes round to every house, and
says his master sent him thither. The parents
and elder children receive him with great pomp
and reverence. He then inquiries for the children,
and according to the character which he hears
from the parents, he gives them the intended
presents. or, II they should have been bad, he
gives the parents a rod, and, in the name Of his
master, recommends them to use 1t frequently.
When about seven or eight years old the children
flll w fhovC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
Queer Mistakes Of school Children.

queer Mistakes OF school Children.
From the Boston Globe.
Below send q few absurd mistakes OF school
children that are nearly equal to Mark Twain S
English As She Is Taught" The children have
Sentences with blanks left to NIL in themselves.
"Though on pleasure she was bent, she had a
half-starved mind"
"a scarcity OF rain is called frugal"
1.-THE camel has two dromedaries on his back,
the venison has only one"
"They sailed awhile on the tossing sea, then
bathed in the swelling acid"
"a fashionable friend Is worse than an open
enemy"
''When sardine is esteemed in OIL 1t is highly
preserved"
''rhe Swedish people are noted for their seen
cry"
1.-The Paris fashions are much used"
"rurtles, crocodtles, reptiles and lizards are
called frigates."
'A vagrant is a person who lives in tallow and
goes about begging"
"a canoe is a small boat made Of tallow or q
hollered tree"
'In some countries cattle are hunted for their
wool and cambria skins"
IA pauper is person who is swinging with
riches"
"A sky Is pliabfe with stars"
"A woman with light eyes Is a zephyr: blonde
Is gentle balmy wind"
''The cells OF the Jail damp, and the prisoners
are supported to eat paupers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
Shirts Of BOstOn's Swell Men.


The white shirt is no longer en- reole. 1t must
be colored-usually In str1pes-wtth q collar Of
snowy linen. The very latest, Just imported, has
three cOlors-dark red light pink and blue-run-
ming vertically In stripes about one inch In width;
cOlored cuffs attached and white collar Another
Is OF white pique, running horizontally, and be-
tween each two ribs OF the pique q narrow thread
OF vari-coOred silk The favOrte shirt of our most
distinguished local dude is cream-colOred, with
saimon-hued polka dots Of silk. Another Kind Is
made OF light rose pque, with little dots Of white
SILK noss sprinkled through 1t. A short time ago
SHIRTS with stripes one and One-half inches broad
OF bright strawberry and light blue were regarded
as the correct thing, and could only be obtained to
order at fabulous expense; but the cheap furnish
ing-gOOds shops brought them out and the trade
In them was killed. shirt that is worn great
deal by swell men In Boston has three narrow lines
OF black running close together across the bosom
az intervals OF four inches Dress shirts must open
In front-aS do all shirts nOwadays-and must
have narrow strip OF embroidery running down
the middle edge The embroidery is done by hand,
and Is very fine. Such shirts cost $50 q piece
Pale green piQue shirts exceedingly swell, and
cost $50 dozen. Some OF them have large white
silk flgureS worked in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
Regulating Maladies By Diet.

from the TnlBeOolpuL8 L6uRer.
BY fasting from sugar, or from meats, or other
SPECIFIC articles Of food it looks as though the dis
tinguished patient, the crown prince of Germany,
might at least beneflt the suffering world by the
value found in the experiments he is said to be un
dergoing. The control Of some maladies by food Is
what every enlightened physician now aims at,
Teething babies are fed to suit their symptoms
rather than treated with drugs AS the Ledger
pointed out some years ago, the time Will come
when human beings VIII have some share at least
Of the good supervision that blo0ded animal stock
has had for years In their food and treatment in
order to improve their condition, health, muscle
endurance. speed, symmetry Of form, &c. The
stock grower has given the healing science many
points In these respects One great use In special
hospitals, such IS the cancer ward established
here in the Home for Incurablea Il that they give
good chances TO observe, simultaneously, the re-
suits Of various foods. Side by side are the
patients who are deprived Of sugar and those who
are not allowed meats those who have some cleo
trtc treatment, those who take hot water plenta-
fully or who live on cranbefrieS. Observations OF
these may add 20 scientific knowledge In return for
the tender care that shelters and provides them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS.
TTHoNas powIISo. Ancsloss.r.

'UNhOhAS DONllNt. Auchoostr
RAJ tsikTf on / sTKEEf sotfn. ~
IIymlL2EE foIR-kNnhh,,HkAlfx AMP SIKH
BY virtue q decrce q the sup-eme Court Of the -
ha9s,syl passed on The sth day 81 beSember. 4. a
sheenaker Is complainant and franci. ID shoemAker
sao yt.es ar defendsnts the sane being cause num-
III III q The Llaity Docksts x sad court
IwhNLi flRs1 DAy oF DKcEMBER A u. lsss.
GnfVtSh y. NJ, IN front f the premises. -
VI. ~. ne.i bidder. the fellow ns descrted re.l
pouneia and de~crilcd ~ follow Fart o. lots nun-
49, sa,esn lol and fourteen lit In square NUN
nsred nNe hundrcd and one DOLL and bee1uning fcr
the pert a SAID bot nnfnisr> sixteen a az II poi nj
on s;rect Al the northwest Corner Of aid lof Ten
40, snd rannins thepce alon< the south line q
four tss feet eleven lb inch.s ~ de eatTe1e Nal
line OF lot thence two IaD fet thence north
tSenty Csol ieet theme twenty thrue S2s1 fet
ming for the part u said LOT NUM- I'D fs1rtsea =
point IN the es-ternmo.t line OF AID Ia and irins
distant seven Zee, north from the southeast crner
said lot t-eniJ go ieeS shanos se. sn s,S 10
line OF said lot twenty thrse GA fect fbs. ,,,
Worery IL improved 10y two substantial Frame Dwell
Term. OF sale. rrr-crihed b. the dcr-.., oD.-
thi OF the purchase mDey in cash. aud the rs~tiu.
years. r~pectively after date. wth Interest payaSe
semi annually from the day Of sale sii raypsst t
len apon tns prsnsss sold g W. ,s.s.soS ~ ?,
trustee. AL cash. NJ the option % The purch.~~-
deposit Of slo0 Will e required tilns 81 sale Ali
fail 90 comply with the terms OF sais within tft-,s
days after day Of sale the trustee the risht a.
rs. the property IT risk and Of dcfsultins pu
chaser. -
wM. a. JOHNSON Trusta.
d9-dts Fendsll Building, Coz. ~ and ID n.y.
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How Russians Make Tea.
THE UNIVERSAL sAMOvAR AND HOW IT SHOULD BE
USED


THE UNIVERSAL sAMovAR AND HOW IT SHOULD BE
Used.
From the New York Tribune.
"This is a Russian samOvar," said the head Of
the Russian department In answer to "a question.
This is the last we have. We did not import any
more this season. People I'm this country don't
know how TO use them They imagine that q
sanoyar is to make tea In; whereas tea In Russia
where tea is made In perfection-is always made
In an earthen teapot.
1.-THE samovar ought to be engraved on the Rus
sian coat OF arms. Every Russian, from the peas
ant to the Car, has q samOvar but the samovar Is
only to heat the water for the tea. This center
tube you notice. he continued, removing the cover
"when In use should be filled with lighted charcoal
usually advise persons to start the charcoal In the
range and put it lighted In the samovar tube. The
space around this tube Is filled with cold water
the Sam0var Is placed on the table, and In q Few
moments the water begins to boil. Russian ladies
always prepare their tea themselves at the table,
An earthen teapot, with a small box containing
OF the table. She first turns little boiling water
In the teapot to heat lt; then she turns this out
and puts In the tea. She turns boiling water over
II and instantly turns this Quit Is merely to
wash the dust or the tea This done, she turns on
the tea sufficient water to make 1t quite strong,
moments to draw. Then she Ills each tea glass
partly full OF this strong tea and nils 1t up with
boiling water from the SamOvar, regulating the
strength OF the glass OF tea to the taste or the per-
son TO whom It Is served.
''Russians do not drink strong tea All tea is
served in thin glasses set in metal frames, like
Turkish coffee cups tea glass and holder is a
popular gift from lady to a gentleman. Water
that has boiled fifteen minutes Is considered UNIT
to make tea. All tea is served boiling hot"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
I'm Trust,

Love itself cannot bestow,
Heaven bestowed Love long ago.
Sweet the error Of thy thought,
II 1t deem give thee aught,
Who but render back thine own,
Destined thine time from time unknown,
Gladly it reverts to thee,
Casting OF my regency
So the carrier-dove when freed,
Cannot choose but homew8rd speed
So the hower-lent dewdrop flies
Back into the native skies:
so the brightness of the wave
But returns what Titan gave;
So the voice from ort the hill
Runneth 1t the bidders will:
SO the soul that hidden lies
In the dute, now lives, now dies
Mastered by . breath and touch.
Only this marvel much:
Heaven, designing gifts for thee,
Placed them here in trust with me.
EDITH NJ THOMAS